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Word Meanings - COOPERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • BUSINESS
    The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • COOPERY
    Relating to a cooper; coopered. Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.
  • REPAIR
    fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
  • MAKE
    A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
  • COOPERING
    Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • COOPERATOR
    One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.
  • REPAIRABLE
    Reparable. Gauden.
  • MAKE-UP
    The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • BUSINESSLIKE
    In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
  • MAKEWEIGHT
    That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
  • COOPERAGE
    1. Work done by a cooper. 2. The price paid for coopers; work. 3. A place where coopers' work is done.
  • MAKE-BELIEVE
    A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
  • MAKARON
    See 2
  • MAKING-UP
    1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
  • MAKI
    A lemur. See Lemur.
  • REPAIRER
    One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • SAILMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • HAYMAKING
    The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • DISREPAIR
    A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
  • VLISSMAKI
    The diadem indris. See Indris.
  • ROADMAKER
    One who makes roads.

 

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